Hailed by critics for her “crystalline voice with its silvery top-register” (source: Olyrix) and her “powerful stage presence” (Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung), Margot Genet has been selected to take part in a number of prestigious academies, including the Académie Jaroussky in 2020, the Abbaye de Royaumont in 2021 and the Atelier Lyrique at the Verbier Festival in 2022. She is the recipient of the ‘Malvina and Denise Menda’ grants from the Opéra Comique (2021) and the Richard-Wagner-Verband in Dortmund (2023).

Margot Genet is also recipient of the Gelsenkirchener Theaterpreis 2024, a prize awarded by the Sparkasse Gelsenkirchen for outstanding performances at the Musiktheater im Revier (MiR), where she has been a soloist since 2023/24. To continue her promising way there, she will be taking on no fewer than five roles this season: Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Musetta in La Bohème, Nannetta in Falstaff, Carmina Burana and Stella (the bride) in the eagerly-awaited German premiere of Kaija Saariaho's last opera, Innocence.

Her last two seasons were highlighted by her debut at the Opéra Comique in Grétry's Zémire et Azor (Lisbé), conducted by Louis Langrée, a European tour of Carmen (Frasquita) with the B'Rock Orchestra, under the musical direction of René Jacobs, her acclaimed performance as Despina in Gelsenkirchen, in a staging of Così fan tutte by David Hermann, and her participation in the concert presenting the production of Cherubini's Médée at Teatro Real in Madrid.

From 2021 to 2023, she was a member of the NRW Opernstudio, where she made decisive encounters for her career and took part in numerous productions in the four associated theatres (Aalto Theater Essen, Theater Dortmund, Oper Wuppertal, Musiktheater im Revier). At the Musiktheater im Revier, she performed Eurydike in Orpheus in der Unterwelt, her first Norina in Don Pasquale and Amelia in Bernarda Albas Haus by Aribert Reimann (directed by Dietrich Hilsdorf). At the Theater Dortmund, she sang the title role of Die Kinder des Sultans by Avner Dorman, as well as Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) and Manja (Gräfin Mariza).

In 2019, as a member of the Opéra studio of the Opéra de Lyon, she made her debut in L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (le feu, la princesse, le rossignol) in the famous staging by James Bonas and Grégoire Pont, broadcast several times on French television. She was invited back to the Opéra de Lyon to sing in Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (Ygraine) and in Manon (Poussette) in concert versions also presented at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and conducted by Daniele Rustioni.

She has also appeared in concert at the Festival de l'Abbaye de Sylvanès (Fauré Requiem), the 1001 Notes Festival, the Mozart Festival in Würzburg, the Auditorium Maurice Ravel in Lyon with the Orchestre National de Lyon and in Recklinghausen with the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen. A lover of baroque music, she was invited in 2024 to the Händel Festspiele in Halle for a recital, accompanied by the Castor ensemble, and collaborates regularly with the Correspondances ensemble (Sébastien Daucé). She performs in recital with pianist Justine Eckhaut and will make her debut with the Bochumer Symphoniker in 2025.

Margot Genet began her singing and cello studies at the Conservatoire de Limoges, her home town, before going on to study opera at the Haute École de Musique de Genève (Bachelor's degree in 2016) and then at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, in the class of Elisabeth Werres (Master's degree in 2019). She has taken part in numerous masterclasses with Prof. Edith Wiens, Hedwig Fassbender, Elène Golgevit, Regina Werner and Ludovic Tézier.

September 2024

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